old mine is now mapped and recorded :)

Gday Dean,
Great to see your still out there doing what you do, love the pics as always.
I'm hoping to get some time to catch up with you in the next few weeks.
keep the photo's coming.
Cheers Steve

Hi Steve, It would be great to catch up in the next few weeks. There are a number of unexplored mines that require your specialised attention such as this one in Blackwood. Cheers Dean.

Nice! I love all these photos, but where are all the samples!??

Brother said:

Nice! I love all these photos, but where are all the samples!??

Click to expand...

The person that posted the photos has now removed them.

dean65 said:

Hi Steve, It would be great to catch up in the next few weeks. There are a number of unexplored mines that require your specialised attention such as this one in Blackwood. Cheers Dean.

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj539/dean6500/IMG_5618_zps8omue3vd.jpg

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj539/dean6500/IMG_5623_zpsoksn8eb2.jpg

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj539/dean6500/IMG_5627_zpssv7xnxdb.jpg

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj539/dean6500/IMG_5633_zpsczj3gka1.jpg

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj539/dean6500/IMG_5635_zpsdqe6qemt.jpg

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj539/dean6500/IMG_5646_zpsxnb8cfyd.jpg

Click to expand...

Thanks Dean, you know me, I'll be like a rat in a drain pipe as usual.
If you have any week days off give me a call as my work is a bit quiet at the moment.
Cheers Steve

Hi Steve, Have some time off during the week so we could go out on one of those days. The photos below are from the open cut at Berringa. The shaft has been filled with rubbish preventing easy access. There must have been a drive a the bottom because I believe this open cut was dug from below working upwards.

The spectacular natural geological formation traversed by the creeks, once known as Patersons Crescent and later as the Devils Kitchen, is a relict fossil landscape whose now-diminished mullock heaps, gorse-covered disturbed ground, altered water-courses, eroded gullies and springtime bulbs blooming in roadside paddocks provide ample cultural landscape evidence of an abandoned township and mines.

great pictures there mate...did you do any sampling whilst down there?

No we just had a look around and left. This mine is on private property.

Gday Dean, I'm glad you and Dammo were able to get out again and enjoy exploring our mining history.
Great photo's as always.
Cheers Steve

La Gerche Mine Sawpit Gully Creswick.The legacy of the gold rush that shaped Victoria lives on in Creswick.

That is one very well crafted mine...they must have had plenty of time on their hands

Nice Pics.....see the change in color in the footwall?

Yes, a lot of labor obviously went into that which only means one thing.

They got large amounts of payable gold out of it.

The geo structure is quite solid due to the lack of timber bracing used also......definitely not Castlemaine, hehe!

It may have gone much further. There is evidence of further adits above this mine.

The legacy of the gold rush that shaped Victoria lives on in Blackwood.

If i havent said so already dean i always appreciate the time you take to share these adventures with us. Thanks mate

Amazing guys. I envy those of you with this kind of history in your back yard

Stay safe Dean, love the adventure,... but,... be careful crossing those (old) timbered drop offs.

Exploring Castlemaine yesterday and came across this water race which still seems to be in working order. Water races were channels cut across a hillside bringing water from streams to places where gold was mined.

Managed to find some nice mines today to the east of Daylesford.